More virtualization? Yes more. Yesterday, we discussed Docker, and now we are going to discuss VirtualBox. This OCS-Mag article explores VirtualBox 5.0, which offers some interesting features like paravirtualization, encryption, USB 3.0 support, and more. Do take a look. http://www.ocsmag.com/2015/07/11/virtualbox-5-0-one-step-closer-to-matrix/ Cheers, Mrk
Care to elaborate on this. I have used VirtualBox for a number of years and find it to be quit stable. See my signature for what I currently use in VirtualBox. Review this thread: List your Virtual Machines | Wilders Security Forums for other operating systems I have successfully use, tested, played with in VirtualBox.
I don't remember details as I abandoned VirtualBox a while ago. I remember having various issues with crashes of guests, corrupted virtual hard disks, virtual machines not starting due to some issues with snapshots, and god-knows what else that I can't recall at the moment. USB support was (in my experience) buggy as hell. It also lacked drag and drop support which I see has been added now, even though they were very strong opponents to ever including it due to it posing security risks and/or other nonsense. However, since this was a major release, I just might give it a try again but I seriously doubt I would go back to VirtualBox, especially now that I have gotten used to VMware Workstation which solved every issue I had with VirtualBox.
The early versions of VB were a bit rocky, the latest is good. I changed to VMWare too. Been very good. Seamless updates and upgrades. When I amortise the cost out over 5-6 VMs and snapshots: pretty good value
There is an experimental feature called PCI Passthrough that may be able to do this depending if the requirements are met. It's only available from a Linux host From the VirtualBox help:
Whoah. PCI passthrough for GPUs? Like in Xen? Wow. That is *GREAT.* IIRC it means you can run a Windows guest on top of a Linux host with full GPU access, completely negating the main advantage of native Windows.
Still experienced minor temporary startup errors, and KDE 5 Plasma 3D acceleration is still not fixed!